It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
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A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
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Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.
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Nobody will keep the thing he hears to himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more.
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Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
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That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.
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Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.
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If you wish to be loved, love.
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Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.
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It is by the benefit of letters that absent friends are in a manner brought together.
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Revenge is an inhuman word.
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Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb.
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Hardly a man will you find who could live with his door open.
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It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
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